El camino a casa

Surviving war, deportation, jail and a death sentence; reconnect with freedom during a slow and complicated return home; live to prevent the world from forgetting an experience that affected millions of resistance against Nazi barbarism. All this is The Way Home, the intense autobiographical novel that Roosenburg published in 1957 to make us aware of the Nacht und Nebel, the terrible directive that Hitler approved in 1941 to persecute, imprison and eliminate all political activists opposed to the regime. Roosenburg was a partisan and underground journalist when she was captured in 1944, sentenced to death and, since she did not carry out the sentence immediately, sent to Waldheim prison in Saxony. In May of the following year, she was released along with her fellow captives, and with them began a long journey back home, a veritable odyssey through a Germany in ruins. Between soldiers of the Red Army, allied troops, former prisoners of war, survivors of the extermination camps and incognito Nazis, the group of friends will be forced to resort to great tricks and heroics to avoid losing their lives in their first days of freedom and make it to the Netherlands, not knowing if their houses are still standing.